I just noticed there’s a Twitter feed ( http://twitter.com/CanMakeIt ) following this blog. Since my post titles tend to be more whimsical and self-referential than informative, I feel kinda bad for anyone mislead into clicking on the titles.
If you’re one of those who came to this blog wondering what the hell I’m babbling about… um, sorry. I’m frequently off topic. Sorry for clogging up your RepRap aggregated feed!
I designed and printed some tiny tea cups to go with my tiny teapot. Unfortunately the two models I tried to print (one in PLA and the other in ABS) turned out very very badly due to the clogged extruder barrel. However, I rather like the design and look forward to printing it properly.
The spout on the black teapot on the left snapped off as I was trying to clean the model. I don’t have any ABS glue lying around so I tried white glue – which didn’t work at all. Later I held up the broken piece and the body of the teapot to my hot extruder barrel and melted them back together. Clearly not a recommended way to repair a part – but it’s been pretty effective.
It didn’t actually look burned. Is “burned PLA” the amber stuff I found dripping from my extruder barrel after I left plastic sitting warm too long?
Is this a symptom of sitting warm too long or too much heat, both, neither, something else?
We’ll call it a traumedy! (Or comma?)
I have several websites, but only blog on two. This one, of course, which is really only about two and a half months old. And the other which is a little over two and a half years old. 1 75 days versus 900 days.
After 75 days, this site has significantly more actual followers.
Oh jeez – was this another post about posting?
I want to design a printable plastic wall anchor. I’m posting the thought here in case I get hit by a bus and don’t get around to modeling one of these.
Like my zip tie (seriously, it was totally worthless – don’t bother to print it), I like the idea of having a library of every day stuff I could print if I suddenly have the need. For instance, remember that day last week when you were wandering around your place wishing you had an extra SD chip blank?
Anyhow, it reminds me of the matter compilers from Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age.
So, you can see why I was turned down for a job selling MakerBots. Sorry guys.
Actually, the good news is they’ve got a product that really speaks for itself. Thank god I’m not the poster child for MakerBot, otherwise those poor bastards would still be eating Ramen noodles today…
It was going pretty well, actually.
The fact that it’s not yet a USB plug-n-play system kinda scared him off. 1 I’m confident we’ll get there some day. And, even if we don’t, I’m still having a hell of a time.
Can you believe it?! Yeah, I was starting to get withdrawals too.
Hmm. I think a post about posting doesn’t really count.
Well, then again, my last post was about Spacexula’s post wherein he referenced my post.
Help! I’m stuck in a for loop!
See! Spacexula has discovered the hard way she’s a wicked temperamental woman!
Shattered acrylic plastruder… Yikes! I printed up one of Zaggo’s Prinstruders – but it appears to be optimized for an early MakerBot Batch 5 with large/small dinos. If I wanted to use my printstruder I would need to pick up some of the extra parts required and essentially print up a small dino.1 However, I think I’d like to start replacing parts out of my MakerBot with printed parts so that I can keep the originals as backups. However, I have a feeling a prinstruder out of ABS is going to be much more robust/resilient than the layered acrylic plastruder. What do I need?
In addition to these parts, I’ll also need to measure my ‘bot for a small dino equivalent. Since my extruder barrel is out of commission and the plastruder is just lying on the platform, this is as good a time as any to measure it up.